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Car owners will do all they can to ensure that their cars look their best so that they can be an object of envy among their friends. Manufacturers have discovered this and are coming up with accessories to make vehicles look superb. This applies for the tires too. There are wheel covers that are purely decorative and which spread over the better part of the frames. They are also called hubcaps or wheel trims.

The choice of the wheel cover will mostly depend on the make of the tires. For example, cars with stamped steel tires will require a wide cover that will take up much of the space around the tire, while alloy-made tires will be more suited to use smaller hubcaps that just occupy a little space at the center. For the best results, the trims have got to be chic and stylish.

In days gone, tires were made from wood or small metal parts. With time, things changed and people got new ideas. They started making tires out of steel and even painted them with an aim of making the color match with that of the body of the cars. In 1970, plastic hubcaps were made and they became a major point of concentration in the 1980s. The steel ones were slowly replaced, and where they are used today, they are in most cases painted black.

One weakness of hubcaps despite their aesthetic value is that they have a tendency to come off if the tire hits a rough patch on the road. To solve the problem, you can use clip-on retention or a bolt-on retention, where in the former case you make use of spring clips to fasten it on the tire, and in the latter case you use a threaded fastener to hold it together.

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